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Talwst , a Canadian artist, carves and paints little scenes in jewels boxes. The boxes for necklaces and rings are used as dioramas to stage classical paintings, famous pictures and even street art works.

Instead of photographing expensive cars in exotic locations, the Indian photographer Vatsal Kataria enjoys staging miniature cars in home made dioramas, creating beautiful compositions for a small price! To even further reduce the costs and improve his techniques, Vatsal Kataria creates his sets using only everyday objects and products.

Madrid-based graphic designer and illustrator Irma Gruenholz (previously here and here ), crafts her illustrations out of clay, turning the typically 2D medium on its head by creating brightly dressed figures in 3D environments.

Artist and illustrator Kevin LCK works almost exclusively in black and white, so it comes as no surprise that as he’s ventured into sculptural objects the aesthetic has remained the same, while the dimensions clearly haven’t. In his new series Ordinary Behavior the artist builds dioramas into everyday electronic objects made from cardboard such as a computer, camera, and iPhone. The artist says his intention is to highlight the sometimes unhealthy relationship people have with technology and explains his thoughts in his artist statement: ‘Ordinary Behavior’ is a project about the unhealthy relationship between human and technology in an everyday context.)

Making of “The Wright Brothers” (by John Thomas Daniels, 1903) “The Wright Brothers” (by John Thomas Daniels, 1903) It all started with a joke—a rather ironic challenge, if you will, to recreate the world’s most expensive photograph: Andreas Gursky’s Rhein II . Because for commercial photographers Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger , that meant tolling away in their spare time when money wasn’t coming in to recreate a photograph that had just sold for $4.3 million. This was the beginning of Ikonen , an ambitious project to meticulously recreate iconic historical scenes in miniature.)

“Library” (2007), all images via The Drawing Room Since 2005, artist Lori Nix and partner Kathleen Gerber have been producing dioramas that depict post-apocalyptic environments, everyday scenes that give the audience a glimpse of their world once nature has been left to take over. Nearly everything within the scenes is fabricated by the two under the name Nix+Gerber , with each scene taking approximately seven months from start to the final photograph. This means that the two take approximately two photographs a year, spending the bulk of their practice on miniature reproduction.)

Quiet, 2015. Ink, watercolor, paper and pins in antique box. 5.5″h x 11.75″w x 4.5″d. Artist Allison May Kiphuth captures scenes inspired by her surroundings in Maine and along the New Hampshire sea coast by squeezing them into small wooden boxes scarcely a few inches wide.